A city like Dubai, home to people from around 200 different countries AND the world’s highest skyscraper, readily lends itself to analogies with the story of the Tower of Babel. Any given day, you are interacting with people who speak a dozen different languages, trying to make

When I arrived in Bangalore to hold a two-day workshop for 22 Indian newspaper professionals, the question on everybody’s mind was: how can local newspapers in India realistically start integrating graphics in their news coverage? While some of India’s larger newspapers s

A recent project about traditional dress in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) got us thinking about good old Roland Barthes. He famously interpreted fashion as a language, which, like all languages, is full of myths, codes and paradoxes; at once superficial and profound; fixed in some wa

When the second Middle East edition of Comic Con hit Dubai last weekend, pop culture fans from all over the Middle East converged on the region’s biggest geekfest to show off their costumes and hunt for collectibles. Naturally, we couldn’t stay away! One thing that makes Comic C

The other week something rather exciting landed on our desk: Choi’s Gallery’s new book, Infographic Design, a global portfolio of infographics projects, featuring five projects realised by us. 232-pages full of inspiration, including case studies ranging from the so

This weekend we’ve been celebrating exciting news from the Malofiej awards: our Olympics project, first introduced in an earlier post, received a Silver Medal! The Malofiej awards are sometimes described as the ‘Pulitzer Prize for Information Graphics’ so this is a great motivation an